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Q: What was formed by ships that sailed from Europe to Africa from Africa to the Americas and from the Americas back to Europe?
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When ships sailed from Europe to the Americas they took advantage of winds that blew from. To .?

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Who controlled African slave trade?

It was a trading triangle:- Goods were sailed to West Africa and exchanged for slaves. The slaves were sailed to America and exchanged for tobacco, sugar and cotton. Tobacco, sugar and cotton were sailed to Europe and exchanged for money The money was used to purchase more goods to be sailed to Africa. Profit was taken out at each point in the triangle by the most money was made at the third point when goods form the Americas came back to Europe. That said the slave trading kingdoms in Africa became quite prosperous too as did the American plantation owners.


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Triangular trade worked like this. Ships loaded with merchant goods, like guns, rum, clothing etc. sailed to Africa from Europe. There the merchant goods were traded for slaves. The ship loaded with slaves in middle passage sailed for the Americas and traded the slaves for raw materials like cotton, tobacco, pineapples and coffee. The ships then sailed for Europe and the process was begun again.


What explorer sailed from Europe to Africa?

That explorer was Bartolomeu Dias. He sailed from Portugal to the tip of Africa which King Joa`named the Cape of Good Hope.I hope that I helped you ~ Oliviabbie


Why did Columbus sail south along Africa before he sailed west to the Americas?

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the third part, in which ships sailed from the Americas back to Europe


When ships sailed from Europe to the Americas they took advantage of winds that blew from?

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Who sailed around the southern tip of Africa?

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when did you sail to Africa?

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